Researchers in the Department of Plant Sciences found lab-based tissue culture leads to more somatic mutations and suggest ways to avoid this widespread problem in research settings.
Cover crops provide a variety of benefits. Keeping living plants in the soil year-round improves soil structure and nutrients, stimulates soil organisms and provides homes and food for pollinators and helpful insects such as ladybugs.
Brad Hanson, of the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, is part of California's Broomrape Control Board, lending his expertise to control this deadly weed that threatens the processing tomato industry.
The Cammarisano Lab invites visitors to explore the future of indoor food production at this year’s Picnic Day exhibit. Then, take an example home! We have herb seedlings grown with controlled environment agriculture, or CEA
To celebrate Picnic Day, the Drakakaki Lab is giving away pistachio snacks and offering fun facts about the science of pistachios: how they are able to withstand salt and drought stress, exactly how that shell splits and more!
Scientists in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences are developing cultivars of pasta wheat that resist the deadly fungus that causes stripe rust and threatens the world's wheat production. Resistant bread wheat is up next.
Retired professor and agronomist Robert “Bob” LeRoy Travis, Jr., was a UCD alum who taught at UC Davis from 1976-2006 and enjoyed a wide variety of hobbies.
Xiaofei Zhang, in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, has a federal grant to develop bread wheat that will grow short, but without the problems that come with short-stature wheat currently available.
Virtual fencing for cattle can lower costs for ranchers, improve the health of land and resilience to wildfire, plus benefit animals' health, according to researchers including rangeland expert Leslie Roche of the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences.
Scientists can now study the genome of the bristlecone pine, nature's longest-living individual organism, thanks to research led by David Neale of the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences.
Ava-Rose Beech, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Plant Sciences, has been selected for the Bridge Scholars program by CANVAS, a group of three soil and agronomy societies.
Wildflowers such as poppies and lupine mix strategies to survive drought: some risky and others conservative, both above-ground and below. Research from the lab of Jennifer Funk of the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences.
Steve Fennimore and Kassim Al-Khatib received top honors at a recent meeting of the California Weed Science Society. Plus, three students, also from the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, won awards.
Daniele Zaccaria is organizing the 2026 Advanced School on Microirrigation for Crop Production, which will be offered in California for the first time, from March 30 to April 3.
